Photographs taken by Melinda, Amanda and Almario
Artistic intention thought and carried out by: Manon Lanjouere
Creation time led over one week, from April 24 to 28 in Strasbourg
With Arnaud Georges, animator of the youth center at CSC Lupovino.
Collective work carried by Stimultania.
For the past two years, Stimultania has allowed groups to take over the windows of its premises on rue Kageneck to present the results of artistic/public creations carried out in different districts of Strasbourg. After the association Foyer Notre-Dame, the boarding house La Couronne ADOMA, the CHRS d'ANTENNE, it is the turn of a group of teenagers from the Lupovino socio-cultural center in the Neuhof district to experiment with a creation time with an artist. Stimultania then offers this intervention in April 2023 to Manon Lanjouère who presents at the same time Particless in the Prix Photographie et Science exhibition (until September).
The first discussions with the photographer focus on their relationship to the image, and the relationship between photography and reality. Then comes the desire to build, to make something with his hands that we can then integrate into the image. But to do what ? Manon Lanjouère launches the idea: a flying Lupovino!
For a week, the group of teenagers design their dream center. Wooden model, drawings and photographs mix to send in the air a fantastic imaginary construction, half-pirate ship, half-medieval castle.
Born in 1993, Manon Lanjouere lives and works in Paris. After a course in Art History at the Sorbonne, she decided to devote herself fully to photography and joined the Ecole des Gobelins in 2014 from where she graduated in 2017 in the majors of her class. Due to his parallel evolution within a Parisian theater, his practice of photography is marked by staging and decor and tends to evolve towards a multiple practice, mixing sounds, photographs, installations, sculptures. Her reading-driven work focuses on depicting fictional worlds. The distance with the narrative implied by the use of scientific expressions, although most often they are only simple vulgarizations or re-interpretations, thus allow the spectator to appropriate the stories that it stages. . The scientific and the poetic, yet diametrically opposed, are the two engines of his artistic research. In the various subjects she addresses, the attempt to understand the interaction between the landscape and the human remains central.